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Volume 19, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 2050-4837
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Abstract

This article explores how the film lays claim to a (space and discourse) from which migrant and diasporic lesbians transgress dominant codes of representation. The protagonists of the film do not ask for visibility; instead, they speak through silence and embodied gestures, offering a different approach to queer Latina sexuality that strategically manoeuvres through the burdens of representation. This cinematic register is what I engage as unspoken desires. When Mosquita and Mari imagine alternative futures, they rely on acts of care and mutual support – all the while, leaving their desires unspoken and thus, revealing the potential to create more possible worlds. Overall, I demonstrate that by creating their own , through embodied language and silence, the girls reclaim their difference in a world that renders them impossible.

This article was recipient of the 2021 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Latino Caucus Graduate Student Writing Award.

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